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Job Seeker's Allowance Quarterly Statistical Enquiry: May 2003

Job Seeker's Allowance: Background

This publication presents data from the Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) Quarterly Statistical Enquiry (QSE) that covers claimants in Great Britain. Its main purpose is to:

give summary analyses that show the key features of the JSA population and how they compare with earlier periods;
provide a basic summary of the main features of JSA and how they affect numbers of recipients and amounts of benefit in payment; and
provide a menu of the types of analysis which can be produced from the QSE data set (additional analysis can be obtained from the contact point above.

Job Seeker's Allowance: Background (115KB)

Contents

Section 1: Caseload by benefit entitlement

Table 1.1	JSA claimants by benefit entitlement
Table 1.2	JSA claimants by benefit entitlement

Section 2: Duration of claims and exits from benefit

Table 2.1	JSA claimants by duration of current claim
Table 2.2	JSA claimants by benefit entitlement and duration of current claim
Table 2.3	JSA claimants by gender, age and duration of current claim
Table 2.4	Terminated claims (1) by duration
Table 2.5	Terminated claims (1) by gender, age and benefit entitlement

Section 3: Claimants without contribution- and/or income-based JSA

Table 3.1	JSA claimants: eligibility to receive contribution-based JSA by gender
Table 3.2	JSA claimants: not eligible to receive contribution-based JSA by gender and benefit reason
Table 3.3	JSA claimants: receipt / non-receipt of JSA by gender
Table 3.4	Claimants not in receipt of JSA by gender and benefit reason
Table 3.5	JSA claimants subject to disallowances or sanctions by type
Table 3.6	Recipients of JSA hardship payments by age and marital status

Section 4: Regional analysis Government Office Regions (GOR)

Table 4.1	JSA claimants by GOR and benefit entitlement
Table 4.2	JSA claimants by GOR
Table 4.3	Beneficiaries of income-based JSA by type and GOR
Table 4.4	Percentage of beneficiaries of income-based JSA by type and GOR

Section 5: Gender, age and marital status

Table 5.1	JSA claimants by gender, marital status and benefit entitlement
Table 5.2	JSA claimants by age and benefit entitlement
Table 5.3	JSA claimants by gender and age (time series)
Table 5.4	JSA claimants by gender and age

Section 6: Amount of JSA

Table 6.1	Claimants with contribution-based JSA by average weekly amount
Table 6.2	Claimants with income-based JSA by average weekly amount
Table 6.3	Claimants of income-based JSA by age and amount of weekly award

Section 7: Income-based JSA

Table 7.1	Beneficiaries of income-based JSA by type
Table 7.2	Recipients of income-based JSA by main type of premium in payment
Table 7.3	Recipients of income-based JSA by main type of premium in payment
Table 7.4	Recipients of income-based JSA by age and number of dependants
Table 7.5	Partners of income-based JSA recipients by age of claimant and partner:
Table 7.6	Partners of income-based JSA recipients not claiming for children by age of claimant and partner

Section 8: Housing costs

Table 8.1	Recipients of income-based JSA with housing requirements
Table 8.2	Recipients of income-based JSA with housing costs by type and amount

Section 9: Income and other benefits

Table 9.1	Recipients and partners with income (1) taken into account against income-based JSA
Table 9.2	Recipients and partners with income taken into account or disregarded against income-based JSA by number and type of items

Section 10: Deductions from JSA

Table 10.1	Deductions from income-based JSA for claimants (time series)
Table 10.2	Deductions from income-based JSA for claimants

Tables

All tables in Microsoft Excel format